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<p>The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) has taken a number of steps to improve its
prosecution of all strands of hate crime.</p><p>The CPS is prosecuting and convicting
more defendants of hate crime than ever before. In 2015/16, the CPS completed 15,442
hate crime prosecutions, an increase of 704 on the previous year. The conviction rate
also improved to 83.2% in 2015/16 an increase from 82.9% the previous year.</p><p>The
CPS Annual Report and Accounts 2016/17 shows that the proportion of cases where the
CPS was successful in achieving uplifted sentences for hate crime perpetrators has
increased dramatically. The proportion rose from 33.8% in 2015/16, to 52.2% in 2016/17
– reaching 58.2% in the final quarter.</p><p>The CPS has delivered mandatory face
to face disability hate crime training and racially and religiously aggravated hate
crime training and is in the process of developing homophobic, biphobic and transphobic
hate crime training to support prosecutors to more effectively deal with hate crime
cases.</p><p><strong> </strong></p>
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